On The Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo, Dr. Paul Broca, 1864

On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo by Paul Broca is a nineteenth-century work reflecting early anthropological and scientific thought on human variation. First published in English in 1864 for the Anthropological Society of London, the book examines questions of race, heredity and hybridity as understood at the time. Emerging from the same intellectual climate that would later inform aspects of racial theory and early eugenic thinking, the work offers insight into the development of anthropology and biology during the Victorian period. Edited by C. Carter Blake, it stands today as a historical document, illustrating both the ambitions and the limitations of contemporary scientific approaches to the study of humanity.

On The Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo, by Dr. Paul Broca. Edited, With the Permission of the Author, by C. Carter Blake, F.G.S., F.A.S.L.

Published for The Anthropological Society, by Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London. 1864 first edition.

Ex-library - 'Dundee Free Libraries', with a few ink stamps and library markings, including label to first pastedown. Bound in a library hardback binding with burgundy cloth and reference number in gilt to spine. Soundly bound.

Text is bright and clean throughout with mild age toning. Small binder's ink stamp to rear pastedown.

Text in English.

xiv + 119pp + (1) Publisher's advertisement. The main book runs to p71, with 72-76pp being the Index. From p77 onwards, are pages pertaining to The Anthropological Society of London.

Dimensions: approx 220mm high x 138mm wide x 15mm deep.
Weight: approx 302g (unpacked)